User talk:Mackan/Archive Jul 2007

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[edit] Blog AfDs

I'm all in favor of cleaning up the blogcruft around here. However, it would no doubt be better form to nominate liberal, moderate and nonpolitical blogs for AfD as well, if deleting the articles on nonnotable blogs is one of the ways you've decided you want to help the project. ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 21:08, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean, is it all of a sudden up to me to nominate every single non-notable blog? You know this is Wikipedia, right? The encyclopedia anyone can edit, right? So feel free to do whatever you think is necessary. Oh, and btw, nominating articles on blogs for deletion is in no way one of my main "interests" on Wikipedia, and nothing I have spent too much time on either.Mackan 09:11, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

(Apologies for the rudeness of the above comment, but I can't be arsed to edit into something more polite. No offence, ok?)Mackan 09:17, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Can you at least be arsed to see beyond the straw men you've put up? No one's suggesting that you have to nominate more or every blog, just that it might be better if the blogs you did nominate had a little more diversity and were not all conservative political blogs. Also, I'm not saying its one of your "main 'interests'" and can only assume that you are using grocer's quotes on the words interests. 14:04, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

What straw men? Do I have to have a personal motivation to nominate 4-5 blogs for deletion? Is refusing to answer such ridiculous allegations "putting up straw men"?Mackan 13:59, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Email

Hi. Thanks very much for the kind words and good advice. You make a good case, but I haven't quite come to that decision yet. The reasons are complex. Partially it is a question of how much time and energy it would require to do things properly (i.e., successfully). Partially anxiety that the process may introduce new and unpredictable ways of controlling things. Partially a feeling that I'm still somewhat of an outsider and it's not up to me to say yea or nay (perhaps I should rethink this). And partially it is a feeling that some kind of resolution may still be possible without it. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. By the way, I have in the past noticed your own contributions and found them impressively balanced and thoughtful. Feel free to share any further thoughts, and I hope my responses don't sound too cryptic. FNMF 07:36, 10 June 2007 (UTC)